Visual Guitar Mastery
What you'll learn
- Identify modes, scales, intervals, and chords using an Excel-based fretboard tool.
- Visualize the fretboard from a player's perspective, applying flipped visual aids to enhance understanding.
- Apply music theory concepts to create practical drills for fretboard navigation.
- Analyze guitar shapes, chord structures, and intervals to deepen theoretical knowledge.
- CreaEvaluate progress through precise terminology and accurate ste visual stories and mnemonic devices to aid in the memorization of complex fretboard patterns.
Requirements
- Basic Guitar Knowledge – Students should have a fundamental understanding of guitar anatomy, basic chords, and simple strumming techniques.
- Familiarity with Music Theory – A basic grasp of music theory concepts such as scales, intervals, and chord progressions is helpful, though not mandatory.
- Access to a Guitar – Participants will need a guitar (electric or acoustic) for daily practice sessions.
- Microsoft Excel or Equivalent Software – Students will need access to Excel or a compatible spreadsheet program to utilize the interactive fretboard worksheet provided in the course.
- Computer/Device with Internet Access – For video lessons, downloads, and accessing course materials.
Description
Welcome to Visual Guitar Mastery, a unique guitar course designed to deepen your understanding of the fretboard through daily hands-on practice and innovative learning techniques. Unlike traditional methods, this course flips the perspective to match the view from your playing position, ensuring that all tools—worksheets, videos, and drills—are designed to help you fully visualize the guitar as you see it behind the instrument.
We’ll be using an adjustable Excel worksheet to map out the fretboard, offering interactive resources for modes, scales, intervals, and chords. Our approach places the low (heavy) string at the top of the worksheet for easier comprehension. Video recordings will be flipped, simulating a left-handed guitar setup so that you can better align the visual experience with your own playing perspective.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to navigate the fretboard, explore modes and guitar shapes, and master chord construction and interval identification, all while applying music theory directly to your playing. Detailed drills and exercises will deepen your theoretical understanding, and we will focus on developing precise terminology to guide your fretboard navigation. Creative visual storytelling techniques will also be used to enhance memorization, helping you internalize complex patterns and concepts.
This course is designed for anyone looking to enhance their guitar-playing skills while learning to approach the fretboard with clarity and precision.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner to Intermediate Guitarists who have foundational guitar skills and want to advance their knowledge of the fretboard and music theory.
- Self-Taught Musicians looking for structured learning to fill in gaps in their fretboard knowledge and improve technique.
- Aspiring Guitarists who wish to develop a deeper understanding of modes, scales, chords, and intervals in a practical, visual manner.
- Visual Learners who prefer innovative tools and flipped perspectives to align the learning experience with how they see and play the guitar.
- Guitarists Seeking Daily Practice routines that blend music theory and practical drills for continuous improvement.
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 58,124 Reviews
- 974,003 Students
- 163 Courses
Through working with students from many different schools, Mr. Steele has learned best practices for helping people understand accounting fast. Learning new skills and finding the best way to share knowledge with people who can benefit from it is a passion of his.
Mr. Steele has experience working as a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA), an accounting and business instructor, and curriculum developer. He has enjoyed putting together quality tools to improve learning and has been teaching, making instructional resources, and building curriculum since 2009. He has been a practicing CPA since 2005. Mr. Steele is a practicing CPA, has a Certified Post-Secondary Instructor (CPI) credential, a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from The University of California Santa Barbara, and a Global Management Accounting Designation (CGMA) from The American Institute of CPA (AICPA).
Mr. Steele has also authored five books that can be found on Amazon or in audiobook format on Audible. He has developed bestselling courses in accounting topics including financial accounting and QuickBooks accounting software.
In addition to working as an accountant, teaching, and developing courses Mr. Steele has helped create an accounting website at accountinginstruction, a YouTube channel called Accounting Instruction, Help, and How Too, and has developed supplemental resources including a Facebook Page, Twitter Page, and Podcasts that can be found on I-tunes, Stitcher, or Soundcloud. Mr. Steele's teaching philosophy is to make content applicable, understandable, and accessible.
Adult learners are looking for application when they learn new skills. In other words, learners want to be able to apply skills in the real world to help their lives. Mr. Steele’s formal accounting education, practical work experience, and substantial teaching experience allow him to create a curriculum that combines traditional accounting education with practical knowledge and application. He accomplishes the goals of making accounting useful and applicable by combining theory with real-world software like Excel and QuickBooks.
Many courses teach QuickBooks data entry or Excel functions but are not providing the real value learners want. Real value is a result of learning technical skills like applications, in conjunction with specific goals, like accounting goals, including being able to interpret the performance of a business.
Mr. Steele makes knowledge understandable by breaking down complex concepts into smaller units with specific objectives and using step by step learning processes to understand each unit. Many accounting textbooks cram way too much information into a course, making it impossible to understand any unit fully. By breaking the content down into digestible chunks, we can move forward much faster.
Mr. Steele also makes use of color association in both presentations and Excel worksheets, a learning tool often overlooked in the accounting field, but one that can vastly improve the speed and comprehension of learning accounting concepts.
The material is also made understandable through the application of concepts learned. Courses will typically demonstrate the accounting concepts and then provide an Excel worksheet or practice problems to work through the concepts covered. The practice problems will be accompanied by an instructional video to work through the problem in step by step format. Excel worksheets will be preformatted, usually including an answer tab that shows the completed problem, and a practice tab where learners can complete the problem along with a step by step presentation video.
Mr. Steele makes learning accounting accessible by making use of technology and partnering with teaching platforms that have a vision of spreading knowledge like Udemy.